First post, by teh_Foxx0rz
I'm getting a lot of errors doing things that had previously working before, from several invalid page faults trying to run various software, to a bluescreen. They all seem to be at 016F.
I'm running a PIII Tualatin 1.4GHz on a VIA mainboard, with a Geforce FX 5700, SB Audigy 2, plus a USB 2 card, network card and ISA sound card, with 1GB of RAM using LIMITMEM to keep it at 512KB in Win98/DOS (I have a different hard drive with XP on I sometimes play around with on this system too).
I've tried reducing and replacing the RAM, but the errors didn't change, so it doesn't seem to be the RAM chips or configuration at all.
I've tried changing my Nvidia drivers - I initially installed 56.64, but went and tried (through forcing) 45.23, and just got corruption and a restart into safe mode (not unexpected when doing unofficial workarounds), then tried 52.04, but found it would freeze on a black screen when changing the desktop resolution in Windows. I then tried going back to 56.64 - yet while it had been working previously, this time, it also froze on a black screen when changing Windows' desktop resolution, and then I got the bluescreen I mentioned at the beginning.
This system has previously been working just fine in a essentially identical configuration - I since had to replace the FX 5700 cus the other went bad, I swapped to an Audigy 2 from a 2ZS so I could have the CD digital input, and I changed the ISA sound card to a different SB Pro compatible one I have, but these don't seem like hugely consequential changes to me. I've tested with the original configuration besides the new graphics card too, anyway, and got the same errors when trying to run the same games.
I've tried reinstalling Windows 98 over this installation, but the same issues still occur.
However, it seems I'm able to play these games with no problem under Windows XP, so it doesn't appear to me to be a hardware issue, such as RAM, the graphics card, or something on the mainboard.
Might anyone have any clue as to what the issue is, or what these errors are saying? I've looked in System Information in case there's some kind of memory address or I/O conflict and saw nothing too. It feels like my troubleshooting is a wild goose chase so far, and it would be very helpful to at least be able to narrow it down perhaps. Thanks very much.
Errors below.
(Impossible Creatures, Rome: Total War and Creative's remote control enabling software thing)
IC caused an invalid page fault in
module ~DECC24.TMP at 016f:0209699e.
Registers:
EAX=020d1ff9 CS=016f EIP=0209699e EFLGS=00010206
EBX=00b9f234 SS=0177 ESP=00b9f0ac EBP=00b9f0cc
ECX=00000000 DS=0177 ESI=00000000 FS=19cf
EDX=81bd1971 ES=0177 EDI=020d1ff9 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 50 04 8b 3d 50 b2 0a 02 74 03 87 c9 90 b8 39
Stack dump:
020d1ff9 022068d0 00b9f234 fe55cef8 244cf433 3fab1a32 9a44822d 9e3779b9 00b9f118 02096b27 020d1ff9 020b7460 020d09ac 020d0ef9 02099b9c 020d0ef9
ROMETW caused an invalid page fault in
module ~DE786E.TMP at 016f:1001a18e.
Registers:
EAX=03621ff9 CS=016f EIP=1001a18e EFLGS=00010216
EBX=029af0e4 SS=0177 ESP=029aeef0 EBP=029aef10
ECX=00000000 DS=0177 ESI=00000000 FS=1917
EDX=5a48a1d8 ES=0177 EDI=03621ff9 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 50 04 8b 3d 50 32 03 10 74 03 87 c9 90 b8 39
Stack dump:
03621ff9 0220b218 029af0e4 c2937025 7902d284 b96d8dd7 8eb4608e 9e3779b9 029aef5c 1001a317 03621ff9 10043060 036209ac 03620ef9 1001f82c 03620ef9
RCMAN caused an invalid page fault in
module RCMAN.EXE at 016f:00414437.
Registers:
EAX=80004002 CS=016f EIP=00414437 EFLGS=00010282
EBX=ffffffff SS=0177 ESP=0065f894 EBP=0065f8d4
ECX=00000000 DS=0177 ESI=00421835 FS=4a0f
EDX=00000000 ES=0177 EDI=00000020 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 11 8b 45 cc 50 ff 52 04 8b 4d cc 8b 11 8b 45
Stack dump:
004215f8 00000000 00000022 00000000 ffffffff 00000002 00000022 00000020 00421835 00414196 00990ec0 00418b80 0065f8cc 004215f8 00000000 00000000
The bluescreen error on changing resolution attached.